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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 408h. Federally owned lands within park boundaries

Statutory text

All federally owned lands within the boundaries of the Isle Royale National Park are made a part of the park: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy shall retain control and jurisdiction, for lighthouse purposes, over Menagerie Island, located in township 64 north, range 35 west, and an unsurveyed island known as Rock of Ages, situated in approximate sections 7 and 18, township 63 north, range 39 west, and also shall retain the right to maintain existing floating and shore aids to navigation and to establish and maintain additional aids to navigation within the established park area when so required by general navigation.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 77–152 § 4 · 56 Stat. 138

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 408h

    Mar. 6, 1942, ch. 152, § 4, 56 Stat. 138

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 6, 1942, ch. 152, § 4, 56 Stat. 138

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. All federally owned lands within the boundaries of the Isle Royale National Park are hereby made a part of the park: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall retain control and jurisdiction, for lighthouse purposes, over Menagerie Island, located in township 64 north, range 35 west, and an unsurveyed island known as Rock of Ages, situated in approximate sections 7 and 18, township 63 north, range 39 west, and also shall retain the right to maintain existing floating and shore aids to navigation and to establish and maintain additional aids to navigation within the established park area when so required by general navigation.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1942—Act , substituted “Secretary of the Navy” for “Secretary of the Treasury”.

Credits

1942 · 2 acts
  1. 1942Mar. 6, 1942, ch. 152, § 4, 56 Stat. 138
  2. 1942July 27, 1942, ch. 526, 56 Stat. 722.
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(Mar. 6, 1942, ch. 152, § 4, 56 Stat. 138; July 27, 1942, ch. 526, 56 Stat. 722.)

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